Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700 : from previously unpublished manuscripts / edited by Robert M. Schuler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schuler, Robert M.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Alchemy.

Routledge library editions. Alchemy ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

Alchemy--Poetry.

Alchemy.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Translations into English.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

French poetry--To 1500--Translations into English.

French poetry.

Didactic poetry, English.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (711 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises

Contents:

pt. 1. Elizabethan versifying alchemists

pt. 2. Three verse translations from Middle French by William Backhouse (1644)

pt. 3. Interregnum "epic" : chymical medicine and spiritual alchemy

pt. 4. Six anonymous verse translations (ca. 1700)

pt. 5. Hermetic mysticism and Augustan satire.

Notes:

First published in 1995 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-15928-2

0-203-07926-4

1-299-14120-X

1-136-15929-0

9780203079263

OCLC:

828298863